Design and verification of a transfer path optimization method for an aircraft on the aircraft carrier flight deck

Abstract

This paper studies the transfer path planning problem for safe transfer of an aircraft on the aircraft carrier flight deck under a poor visibility condition or at night. First, we analyze the transfer path planning problem for carrier-based aircraft on the flight deck, and define the objective to be optimized and the constraints to be met. Second, to solve this problem, the mathematical support models for the flight deck, carrier aircraft entity, entity extension, entity posture, entity conflict detection, and path smoothing are established, as they provide the necessary basis for transfer path planning of the aircraft on the aircraft carrier. Third, to enable automatic transfer path planning, we design a multi-habitat parallel chaos algorithm (called KCMPSO), and use it as the optimization method for transfer path planning. Finally, we take the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier as a verification example, and conduct simulations. The simulation results show that compared with particle swarm optimization, this method can solve the transfer path planning problem for an aircraft on the aircraft carrier flight deck better.

Keywords

Carrier aircraft / Flight deck / Transfer path planning / KCMPSO algorithm / Method design and validation

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